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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Concern at forcible land acquisition for Posco

Concern at forcible land acquisition for Posco

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published Published on Jun 7, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 7, 2011
-The Hindu
 
Drawing attention to the situation in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa, where villagers are peacefully opposing forcible acquisition of their private and forest lands by the Orissa Government for South Korean steel major Posco's project, a report titled “Tearing through the water landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of Psco project in Orissa, India” was released here on Tuesday.

“People have been against industrialisation of their land since November 2005. Their voices have been regularly crushed. On June 3, the local police went around announcing that no voices against the authorities would be tolerated,” said National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers member Mamata Dash.

The Orissa Government approved the project's environment and CRZ clearances on January 31 and forest clearance on May 2. “Over 70 per cent of the land being cleared is forest land,” said co-author of the study Leo F. Saldanha.

“What happened at the Ramlila grounds was a crackdown of democracy, but the situation in Jagatsinghpur is a severe instance of people resisting…corporate plunder of our country's resources,” said Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) Liberation central committee member Kavita Krishnan.

“All [government] activities have been designed in such a way that Posco makes maximum benefits and the locals get nothing,” said Campaign for Survival and Dignity member Shankar Gopalakrishnan. He added that the government had facilitated the SEZ extensions granted to Posco. Andhra Pradesh Communist Party of India secretary Sudhakar Reddy questioned clearances granted to the steel major for its ambitious project.

The representatives of various organisations supporting the movement spearheaded by Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti demanded that the Orissa Government immediately withdraw its police operations and forcible acquisition of land for Posco.

They further demanded that the Central Bureau of Investigation expand the scope of its investigation to include former Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests A. Raja and that the Posco project be scrapped since its primary beneficiaries are American financiers who are primary stakeholders of the South Korea- based Posco.

The Hindu, 8 June, 2011, http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/08/stories/2011060862472000.htm


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